Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1906 — EXHIBITS OF PRISONS [ARTICLE]

EXHIBITS OF PRISONS

Work of Inmate* of Reformatories, Etc., To Be Shown at State Fair. NO PARADE OF THE SOLDIERS Guardsmen Not on Parade, the Officers Say—Fight with a Water Moccasin—State Items. Jeffersonville, Ind., Aug. 16. —W. H. Whittaker, superintendent of the Indiana reformatory, is preparing an exhibit for the Indiana state fair, which will be held at Indianapolis from Sept. 10 to 15. The School for Feeble-Mind-ed Youths at Fort Wayne, the Indiana Boys’ School at Plainfield and the Indiana School for Glrjs and the Women’s Prison at Indianapolis algo will make exhibits, and the entire four exhibits will be transferred after the fair to Muncie, where tney will be shown at the meeting of the state conference of charities and corrections iu that city from Oct. 9 to 12. Will Show the Handiwork. The exhibit from the reformatory will illustrate all the work that is being down there. A fifty-page pamphlet is now being prepared In the printing department at the reformatory and 5,Out) copies will be issued. This will illustrate In itself the work of this most successful trade school and will contain an illustrated account of the various departments of industry. In addition there will be exhibits of each department, including articles manufactured and work done in the chain and hollow-ware shops, brooms, furniture, machine Hittings shirt-making. There has also been prepared a book illustrating the wo k In the school of letters, and this has been bound in the institution and will show wjiat can be done in that department’. Doubles the Price of the Man. The chain department is the last to be brought under the trade school system, and the change has alreadyworked a great benefit to the state, according to Whittaker. Under the old contract the state received 32 cents a man. but under the new arrangement, whereby the state runs the department and the old company takes the goods nt a fixed price, the state is getting 60 cents a man. Of this about 8 cents wil' go to the convict who is lillowed everything he makes over a certain task in his eight hours of employment. Pleased with Results. The old rattan contract paid 40 cents to the state. Whittaker says that few institutions working under the contract system get more than 45 to 50 cents a man per diem and this often witli a ten-hour day. He is therefore pleased that he is getting over 50 cents with an eight-hour work day. He expects by the first of the year to be earning at the rate of SIOO.000 a year for the state. KILLED A MOCCASIN Woman with the Help of a Dog Dispatches One That Is Eight Feet Long. Noblesville, Ind,Aug. 1,6. —With an oar as her only weapon Mrs. Emanuel Hartley fought for several minutes with-a water moccasin, which made an attack on her and her two daughters. Mrs. Hartley and daughters were fishing in White river, north of this city. Their dog swam across the river and iu a few minutes he was seen returning. Just behind the dog was a large snnke, exerting every effort to reach the dog. When the snake observed Mrs. Hartley in the boat it turned Its attention to her and. the girls. Mrs. Hartley grasped an oar and waited for the snake to come.within her reach. When she struck at the snake it dodged under the boat and came out of the water on the other side. Finally the dog came to the rescue of Mrs. Hartley and the snake was killed. When dragged ashore.it measured eight feet. Dr- Kane Is Recovering. Crawfordsville, Ind., Aug. 16. Dr. W. P. Kane, president of Wabash college, will lie able to take up his college work at the beginning of the fall term. This is an authoritative statement, based on the Improvement tn bis condition within the last few weeks. Dr. Kane was stricken with a very serious complication of troubles commencement week. No Parade; Too Much Business. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., Aug. 16. posed parade of troops In Indianapolis had been abandoned on account of the opposition o nthe part of officers of the Indiana National Guard, who desire that al) the, time spent by the Indiana troops in the camp of instruction shall be devoted to work. The Uncertain “Mushroom.” Knox, Ind., Aug. 16.—The 3-year-old son of John Michalski, of Jackson township, is dead, and Michalski and his wife are dangerously ill as the result of eating what they supposed were mushrooms, but In reality were toadstools., Kicked Off Hie Wheel. Vincennes, Ind., Aug. 16. D. K. Crabbs, while riding along the river road, was kicked off his bicycle by a passing carriage horse. His arm was broken.